The Last of Us Franchise - Because it's apparently a franchise now. This thread has been double-DMCA’d by Sony Interactive Entertainment.

[Icasaracht]

“Grüße meine Freunde! Sie nennen mich den 'Joel Hunter' ..."

 

[Hee]

I mean, Sony basically pays the Russians in cheap vodka.

Also the response I've seen is viscerally negative. I've rarely seen this much hate and people basically turning on it. It only seems to be TV Tropes (which are a bunch of dumb retarded faggots) and a small subset of ResetEra (These people don't count as human) who enjoy it.



That didn't take long. Also why the fuck would Russians give a shit about TLOU 2 reviews? Why would anyone pay a bot network for negative reviews with no financial gain themselves? Seriously, these people are fucking morons.

Also shocked at the 'Wired' negative review. Sony isn't handing out nearly enough checks it seems.



Nobody knows.

Sony has been making their money on mainly hype for such a long time.

Some marketing assholes probably thought it was a good idea to feign acclaim to sell their games. It seemed to have worked for a time, but the cracks are really starting to show. I wonder how many "No Man's Sky"s and "TLOU2"s they pull before it all falls apart.

Even if they manage a profit off this game, I doubt the margins are getting any better at this rate.

 

[Dopey Cunt]

It continues lmao
Please, please, PLEASE someone make a compilation video of streamer reaction to Joel's death. Please.

 

[ZMOT]

I don't think so, because Hordes are easy to fake if you can't do them as is.

wasn't that the selling point of day's gone? (going by the marketing material, which knowing sony probably was exaggerated as fuck)

 

[Rotollo]

I wonder how they'll attempt to explain away the overwhelmingly negative response. It seems that the people who got this day-one are starting to agree with those of us here.

Ah, yes, Russian bots. It's good to know that these top notch voice actors happen to also be fantastic internet detectives. It's definitely not because they're concerned with their bonus checks.

They'll still say "it's being review bombed!!!" 3 months from now

 

[Bumwine]

Lol, I asked one of my friends who is a big fanboy of the first one how is going and he linked me this song

"This is how I feel now and also what I want to do to ND"

I bet He's not alone

 

[Hee]

“IT’S A PARTY EVERY WEEK, BABY”

 

[Ruin]

Isn't Abby like 16? This game has actual CP in it.

 

[Ginger Piglet]

Isn't Abby like 16? This game has actual CP in it.

16 stone, maybe.

 

[DidYouJustSayThat]

Right. Here's a good vengeance tale - "Best Served Cold" by Joe Abercrombie. It's the 4th in his The First Law novels, and it's set in a fantasy counterpart culture of Renaissance Italy called Styria.

Spoiler: Book sperging

Styria in current year is not doing well. It is in the 19th year of an endless civil war between Grand Duke Orso of Talins, the largest of the city states, and his vassals, and the League of Eight, an alliance of the other eight city states. Our protagonist is a mercenary captain called Monza Murcatto who has been working for Orso for the past few years with a band called the Thousand Swords. She became captain of the Thousand Swords when she was the second in command and the commander, a drunken degenerate called Nicomo Cosca, were effectively running a scam on the various city states by taking money from both sides and pretending to fight each other to a draw, until Orso saw through it and paid her extra to actually fight for him. She, and her brother Benna, who is the company's accountant, are on their way to Orso's stronghold to collect their pay. They go in, and Orso is there and tells them how they have been instrumental in his successes and how the people love her as the city's stalwart defender.

In fact, he explains that they might actually love her a bit too much, and he, his sons, a banker, his in-house general, her second in command, and his executioner garotte her, stab her, and throw her over a balcony and down a mountainside. Ditto her brother (who's also her lover). He dies, but she's saved by some mysterious person and nursed back to health with the aid of some gold coins as a skull graft and a lot of opium.

Now, she goes on a quest to avenge herself against Orso and all the people in the room when they tried to kill her. She teams up with a bunch of very questionable allies, including an autistic savant murderer, a professional poisoner, an assassin, and a recent immigrant barbarian who wants to try to become a better person. And her former mentor Cosca, who is a drunken wreck. One by one, they hunt down Orso and his people, and kill them. Only to find out that it isn't bringing back Benna, and most of them were actually not in on it and actually were trying to argue against it. There's a brilliant scene where she's putting the boot into Faithful Carpi, the second in command, by holding him under a watermill, and he says he never wanted this to happen, he had nothing to do with it, and gives proof that this is so, but unfortunately his cloak gets tangled in the waterwheel just as she decides to spare him and he's dragged under and drowned. There's also explorations as to how her quest for vengeance hurts all the people around her. Caul Shivers, the barbarian (and later her lover) finds that his quest to try to become a better person is failing miserably and worse that he's actually okay with being one of the bad guys. Castor Morveer, the poisoner, has his apprentice turn on him and has to kill said apprentice, and then switches sides and betrays her. Then there's just the bystanders. While attempting to kill Prince Ario, the elder son of Orso, the resulting carnage involves a six-floor brothel in the city of Sipani being burnt to the ground. While going after the banker, Morveer spergs out and poisons every clerk in the building because he wanted to make sure. She also finds out that Orso was the way he was because he himself was previously a mercenary captain like she was and obtained power by overthrowing the previous Grand Duke, and ironically, in his zeal to not go the way of his predecessor he gave her the idea to overthrow him for real. By the end, Orso's alone and trapped in his drawing room, and she comes in, and he tells her to go ahead because it won't give her any satisfaction. She does. It doesn't.

And the novel ends with her, pregnant by either Caul Shivers or Duke Rogont of Ospria (being Orso's greatest rival), having accidentally and indirectly poisoned all the other dukes of Styria at the meeting to have Rogont crowned King of Styria (Morveer offered to poison them all when he went over to Orso and he did this by smearing something deeply horrific on the crown jewels of Styria and Monza escaped because she was the only person who wore gloves to the ceremony), as the last person standing. She has made a desert and called it peace. All hail Monza Murcatto, Grand Duchess of Talins.

(There is a hope spot though at the end. It turns out that the rest of Styria was completely tired of fighting and offered to make peace, which she agreed to, and in later books it's mentioned that she's an extremely capable and competent ruler, and has her son crowned King of Styria by the time the 7th book, "A Little Hatred," comes round.)

See, the reason this works is because character development. Abercrombie doesn't try to subvert expectations for its own sake. Monza Murcatto goes from a literal war criminal (she is partly responsible, alongside her brother, for causing one city in the backstory to have been sacked so hard that the place is pretty much a wreck even years later, and is known as the Butcher of Caprile as a result of this) whose every thought is consumed by the need to stick her blade through Duke Orso's heart, to actually being a competent and caring ruler, because in her journey she actually saw what damage her quest was doing not to her but others. She starts to have misgivings as soon as Morveer poisons all the bankers, and then has even more misgivings when Faithful Carpi gets drowned and as his bloated, drowned corpse comes up the other side of the waterwheel, she feels pretty shit with herself, to the point at which she's prepared to let Orso's younger son off altogether, only to have Caul Shivers come up and axe him in the back because she hired him to kill some people, not talk to them. She even later on has misgivings about taking Orso's fort by undermining the walls and blowing them up with gunpowder because she doesn't want any more randos to die in the attempt. And when she finally does kill Orso, she feels... empty.

Meanwhile, Caul Shivers goes from wanting to be a better man and getting out of the endless cycle of blood-feuds from his homeland to believing actually, he is absolutely fine with being one of the bad guys. We see him again in book 5, "The Heroes," and he's basically the most feared man in the North because of his total lack of any conscience whatever. He clearly learned much from Monza. Castor Morveer is unable to quit his job because there is nothing else for him, and he dies as he lived, of poisoning.

This is how you write a tale of revenge. Drucko should take note, but he won't.

I have read the first four books of that series, thank you for reminding me of the fact, that I have yet to finish with the series. I guess the Cuckman did some good, for his butchery of TLOU2 caused you write this comment with an excellent take on the events in this book - this reminded me why I loved the series so.

 

[Peasant]

It's because Erik Kain of Forbes is pretty level-headed, and was the first one to break ranks with the media when they started to accuse anyone who disliked Mass Effect 3's ending of wanting to rape women, and Paul Tassi of Forbes is basically bizarro Erik Kain and pretty much a corporate lapdog, so we get this weird back and forth thing where they try to make contrarian takes against each other.

Erik Kain is the only videogame journalist I respect. I hope he holds against the tide.

 

[Hee]

Isn't Abby like 16? This game has actual CP in it.

Ages for the new additions to the series were conveniently omitted. Hmmm...

 

[Cubanodun]

and there it is the gaymergait again

He later has the balls to say "people already made their mind and refuse to play it just because they hate representation", dude people dont give a shit that abby is a tranny people is made that she is a piece of shit character that actually killed a likeable one

Edit to not doublepost: also a journalist having the balls to say that "you did not play the game" get fucked cunt your kind has a extensive record of never ever finishing a game

 

[blablabla]

gaming press is a cesspool of wanabee real journalist, absolute scum of the earth

 

[Rotollo]

also a journalist having the balls to say that "you did not play the game" get fucked cunt your kind has a extensive record of never ever finishing a game

That shit about the last of us is like saying "you didn't play dragon's lair all the way through" it adds to it, but it's not necessary to get the full effect

 

[Table Country]

and there it is the gaymergait again

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He later has the balls to say "people already made their mind and refuse to play it just because they hate representation", dude people dont give a shit that abby is a tranny people is made that she is a piece of shit character that actually killed a likeable one

Edit to not doublepost: also a journalist having the balls to say that "you did not play the game" get fucked cunt your kind has a extensive record of never ever finishing a game

It's okay, they only ever resort to this argument when they're losing.

 

[Foltest]

I have read the first four books of that series, thank you for reminding me of the fact, that I have yet to finish with the series. I guess the Cuckman did some good, for his butchery of TLOU2 caused you write this comment with an excellent take on the events in this book - this reminded me why I loved the series so.

In the last book of the original series ( I forgot the name) but there Caul found some closure to his rage and vengeance and is tired of being evil.

 

[Unyielding Stupidity]

and there it is the gaymergait again

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He later has the balls to say "people already made their mind and refuse to play it just because they hate representation", dude people dont give a shit that abby is a tranny people is made that she is a piece of shit character that actually killed a likeable one

Edit to not doublepost: also a journalist having the balls to say that "you did not play the game" get fucked cunt your kind has a extensive record of never ever finishing a game

We're still going to be hearing about gamergate for years to come, aren't we? At this rate, some president may actually tweet about Gamergate, and Soygon will smuckle himself to death.

 

[Jaimas]

You say that but I don’t remember Religious Rightism tearing down statues of George Washington.

The whole centerpiece of Religious Rightism is orthodoxy. They don't care about shit that already happened unless it's somehow relevant to their cause. You'd never see them tear down a statue of a founding father because their entire worldview focused on traditionalism. What you would see is them losing their shit over acknowledging the fact that gay people exist or using a naughty ha ha word.

They were less openly destructive, but way more mean-spirited about their shit, to the point where we reached the Dispersion Point (the point from which others who would otherwise line up with the ideology said "fuck this, I'm out") far sooner than it ever had a chance to with the left. There was an ongoing joke that nobody did more for the cause of gay rights than the Westboro Baptist Church, and I'd say that's accurate.

The modern extreme-left is enabled by the mainstream press and establishment Dem politicians, to a fucking ridiculous degree. It's caused a whole new paradigm that's gone over about as well as an abortion in a Disney film.

 

[Mr. Duck]

someone needs to put the I must go now, my people need me edit